Miles: 1303 books

Cheshire 1813. A tale set against the turbulent backdrop of Luddite riots and the final years of the Napoleonic Wars. Robbie Enright is a teenaged orphan indentured at a remote cotton-spinning mill called Providence, owned by the eminent Samuel Stead. In this highly-successful enterprise reliant on...

2012 Joe and Tess have spent seven years married, but not in bliss. Each fiercely proud and unwilling to be the first to give in, their love is becoming a cancerous war of worsening proportions as they deny each other affection and refuse to communicate. Miserable and hurt by Tess’s drunken...

On Halloween 1793 a teenaged prostitute is found murdered, her body horribly mutilated. A new type of killer is stalking the muddy streets of Leeds and the authorities are baffled. Worried about the loss of trade, the town corporation hires John Eagle to investigate. But other murders soon follow,...

During Mexicos War of Reform in 1860, Conservative Gen. Miguel Miramn and his army was responsible for some heinous crimes, many of them against innocent citizens. After the war, he escaped from Mexico aboard a French naval vessel as the war ended. Now, Miramn is about to return with his French backers....

Her poem The Antique Shop has been on the web for over five years. This poem was written after going to her hometown on vacation many years ago. She entered one of the local antique shops and was inspired to write a poem that brought back vivid memories of yesterday. In March 2004, Valerie competed...

“The two men had circled the corral and were in the forest beyond the garden, Baker stumbling over the rocky ground as it sloped upward, Charles behind him, rifle pointing at Baker’s back. As they disappeared into the trees, Gregoria heard a blast from the gun, then another.” It’s 1867 in...

The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction...

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

Dusk at Turquoise Lake is about the mystique of any given day. It is an exhilarating exploration about life, love, yearning, and retrospection. Two lovers displaced by their careers and life paths live on different continents. During their separation, the author refuses to lapse into zombiesque...

Todo el mundo debería tener algo en contra de que rebelarse... Crank Wilson salió de su casa del sur de Boston a los dieciséis años para formar una banda punk y consumir su rabia en el mundo. Seis años más tarde, todavía está en desacuerdo con su padre, un policía de Boston y no le habla...

Dylan Paris es un chico de la clase trabajadora de Georgia. Dispuesto a asentar cabeza, Dylan se encuentra impresionado al ser seleccionado para un programa de intercambio extranjero de seis semanas a Israel. Alex Thompson es la hija de un rico embajador estadounidense y es parte de la alta sociedad...

Years ago, witch hunters came to Carolina and devoured the Willows. Sixteen-year-old Collette, a powerful empath, was one of them. A part of a long line of witches that stretches back as far as the slave auctions of Charleston, she was especially gifted. Decades later, a series of strange...

Micah, unemployed for some time, gets hired as the Marketing Coordinator for a retirement home. The night before her first day on the job, it begins to snow, and by the time she gets up early the next morning there are six inches on the ground. Uncomfortable driving in the stuff, she does it anyway....

Annabelle-Belle to her friends-returns to small town Mercy Ridge feeling like a failure. She'd left with such high hopes-a teaching job, marriage, children and a life in the big city. But here she is, back in Mercy Ridge, living with her folks, jobless, her fiancé long gone, and embarrassed to face...